On Sept 7, UOB vice-president, Mr Desmond Goh Khiaw Siang, was alerted by the bank's unit card centre that several cloned cards had been recovered at the airport and Far East Shopping Centre. He lodged a police report and officers arrested Momchilov two days later when he tried to leave Singapore.

DPP Malhotra urged the judge to jail him for between nine months and a year, saying that such offences were difficult to detect and was also extremely difficult to separate legitimate withdrawals from fraudulent ones.

Momchilov will be back in court on Jan 25. For each count of abetment by conspiracy to commit theft, he can be jailed up to nine months and fined.

This article was first published on Jan 19, 2017.
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